Ebook: Public Economics: The Macroeconomic Perspective
Author: Burkhard Heer
- Tags: Economics, Public Economics, Public Finance, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Game Theory Economics Social and Behav. Sciences, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Financial Crises
- Series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Language: English
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Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability. All these problems are compounded by the phenomenon of demographic transition and aging. This graduate textbook addresses these issues with the help of state-of-the-art macroeconomic tools that are based on a sound microfoundation and rooted in empirical evidence. Different from the standard partial-equilibrium analysis in traditional textbooks on public economics, the concept of general equilibrium helps to account for compensating or amplifying side-effects of economic policy.
GAUSS and MATLAB computer code as well as teaching material (slides) are available as downloads from the author's homepage.